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Super Open Studios, Part 1

Posted on February 3, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

West Tokyo Artist Studio Tour Sunday 29 January, 2017 Exhibitions of art are the thin egg-shell horizon-line of a process far more complex than most people realise. When we talk about art we mostly reference the impact that it has had after the actual engagement with it, a kind of retrospective backstory to a past … Continue reading →

Go Watanabe, January 2017
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Go Watanabe, January 2017

Posted on February 1, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Go Watanabe, Light Difference – Face III Urano Gallery; 21 January to 25 February With a lovingly fluid motion we are drawn in, delivered to and destabilised by the mesmerising video works of Go Watanabe at Urano Gallery. In the first room, three moving-images work to ingratiate their way into your inner ear through your … Continue reading →

Kohei Sekigawa, January 2017
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Kohei Sekigawa, January 2017

Posted on January 31, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Kohei Sekigawa, figure / out Guardian Garden; 11 January to 27 January Meticulously rendered observational drawing carries a certain appreciative respect in the same way that finely carved figurative marble sculptures do. The attention to detail and focused labour required to execute them well is of an Olympian order, so the residue energies of that … Continue reading →

Jud Wimhurst, January 2017
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Jud Wimhurst, January 2017

Posted on January 30, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Jud Wimhurst, Gimme Freedom (or Gimme Death) Bendigo Art Gallery; 5 November, 2016 to 12 February 2017 Nostalgia isn’t always the referential craning back for a better time. It isn’t always rose-coloured glasses and halcyon days. Sometimes, the fun-time good-times of the days of yore are dark hearts inside fluffy clouds, where clowns reveal the … Continue reading →

Tetsuro Kano, January 2017
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Tetsuro Kano, January 2017

Posted on January 28, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Tetsuro Kano, a tree as a city Yuka Tsuruno Gallery; 21 January to 25 February Architectural miniatures constructed by sentient caterpillars and art-fan hummingbirds with a penchant for mid-century Calder mobiles furnish much of the Yuka Tsuruno Gallery in T-Art Complex, Tokyo. Set out over two spaces, the exhibition can be roughly categorised into three … Continue reading →

Reijiro Wada and Ariel Schlesinger, February 2017
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Reijiro Wada and Ariel Schlesinger, February 2017

Posted on January 27, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Reijiro Wada | Ariel Schlesinger SCAI The Bathhouse; 27 January to 25 February Eight artworks occupy a square gallery space, set out in iambic rhythm, delivering poetry in materials and ideas. Brass, polished steel and glass sit in equilibrious partnership with brandy, citric acid and bone. Time is both accelerated and accumulated in meditations on … Continue reading →

Tomohiro Kano & Yoshiaki Kojiro, January 2017
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Tomohiro Kano & Yoshiaki Kojiro, January 2017

Posted on January 25, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Tomohiro Kano and Yoshiaki Kojiro, (joint exhibition untitled) Gallery Tokyo + Beijing Tokyo Art Projects; 21 January to 18 February Totemic structures sit evenly spaced on the white-tiled floor of a nondescript space on the seventh-floor of an office building in Ginza. Some twenty-four pieces, most of them on flat and polished steel plates, are … Continue reading →

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_ little sideline into my other secret pet obsession @auspology #auspol
_ one of the biggest things i’ve worked on. with some of the best artists i know, and a bundle i haven’t even met yet, but have been researching for ages and can’t wait to bring their work to central victoria you absolutely should come the artists above are just some of the lineup we have pulled together. although, it feels more like it’s pulled itself together and me and the LAI team are just helpers _ @latrobe_ai @castlemainefestival
_ you can’t beat working with talented professional people. these legends are helping pull together quite the complex multi-site contemporary art exhibition. with a tiny budget and an array of obstacles to overcome, they manage to conceive, develop and deliver some of the most interesting things i’ve been involved with. one such thing, put together by Karen, is an intensive behind-the-scenes program of talks, lectures and insights into our curation of the @castlemainefestival visual arts program. over two weekends you can meet great artists, learn more about biennialisation as a form, and discover how these things get produced. keep an eye on @latrobe_ai for details. there’s only a few spots!
_ help callout: i met Taichi Nakamura in Tokyo on a research trip in 2017. i went over looking to build pathways between here and there, to generate networks for artists and opportunities for both japanese and australian artists to exhibit internationally Nakamura-san is the first artist in this process, we’ve (LAI) invited him to exhibit at the castlemaine state festival next month. he’s here to absorb the landscape and we’re taking him on field trips with environmental researchers from La Trobe University. he’s super talented and a lovely human, with very minimal english. the uni have been great and we’ve got some good help for him (accom, fee, flights, and a little bit of materials cover). if there are any artists in melbourne or central vic who speak any japanese and would be interested to meet and take him on bush walks or gallery visits, i would love to help him have a fulsome experience here with that engagement. and if anyone has spare paints or linseed oil to supplement what we’ve been able to offer, that would be awesome too i’m working toward this scenario being a regular and bilateral flow of artists back and forth between the two countries, so anyone interested in going to japan as part of a reciprocal arrangement, i’m keen to work towards that end _ @taichi_nakamura.67painting @latrobe_ai _ 2017 research trip supported by @auscouncilarts Thanks to @3331artschiyoda where I stayed on a curator residency, and who helped facilitate a tour of #superopenstudio where I met Taichi in western Tokyo

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